{"id":1566,"date":"2009-01-14T14:31:47","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T19:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2009-01-14T14:47:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T19:47:01","slug":"community-meeting-against-jail-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2009\/01\/14\/community-meeting-against-jail-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMUNITY MEETING AGAINST JAIL EXPANSION"},"content":{"rendered":"

INVITATION TO COMMUNITY MEETING AGAINST JAIL EXPANSION<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 3:00-6:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

GREAT HALL, TRINITY CHURCH, 111 S. Grant St.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Childcare will be provided<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Decarcerate Monroe County (DMC), with the encouragement of Citizens for Effective Justice, UU Friends of Prisoners Task Force, and New Leaf\/New Life, is pleased to invite you to a <\/span><\/span>community update and discussion<\/strong><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>on Monroe<\/strong><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>County’s plan to expand incarceration<\/strong><\/span><\/span>. Please come to share information and personal stories about incarceration, coordinate efforts to fight the expansion, and begin developing effective, long-term strategies and proposals to reduce incarceration!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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BACKGROUND<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In the fall of 2008, the Monroe County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (MCCJCC) held a series of meetings ostensibly to solicit public input regarding the proposal to construct new criminal justice facilities, including a new youth lockup, to replace the current jail. The meetings gave criminal justice personnel opportunities to present their assessment of the current situation and to make their arguments in favor of the County’s plan for expansion. The final meeting offered a platform for the presentation of construction plans by the Noblesville-based design and construction contractor PMSI, Project Management Solutions Incorporated. Despite overwhelming opposition expressed in public comments, County officials seem to have emerged from the meetings with continued determination to pursue the expansion plan.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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COMMUNITY MEETING<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As an alternative and follow-up to this series of meetings, Decarcerate Monroe County has called a genuine public forum for Saturday, January 31<\/span><\/span>st<\/span><\/span><\/sup>, in the Great Hall of Trinity Church. This afternoon will offer information, facilitate a broad-ranging public conversation, and plan continued active response. People should bring their experiences and ideas to contribute to working out practical solutions to the problems the jail purports to solve but actually only worsens.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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WHAT IS DMC?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Decarcerate Monroe County is an open coalition that works to challenge the belief that cages, coercion, and confinement keep our community safe. DMC believes that people are safe when they have their basic needs met and when they feel empowered and free. DMC works to build access to meaningful, non-coercive options for dealing with problems and resolving conflict. We resist expansion of incarceration, including the proposed adult and youth jails; we support shrinking the existing punitive justice system in Monroe County.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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While the group calling the meeting is explicitly against jail expansion, the Community Meeting will welcome the broadest array of opinions — <\/span><\/span>please come and let’s all work together to make Monroe County a safer and more just place!<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

INVITATION TO COMMUNITY MEETING AGAINST JAIL EXPANSION SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 3:00-6:00 p.m. GREAT HALL, TRINITY CHURCH, 111 S. Grant St. Childcare will be provided Decarcerate Monroe County (DMC), with the encouragement of Citizens for Effective Justice, UU Friends of Prisoners Task Force, and New Leaf\/New Life, is pleased to invite you to a community update… Continue reading COMMUNITY MEETING AGAINST JAIL EXPANSION<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[21289,575,506,508],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bloomington","tag-dmc","tag-jail","tag-monroecounty","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-pg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1568,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions\/1568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}